A CAR ride with a Gold Coast prostitute and her husband allegedly ended in murder after the victim teased a gunman for being too ``pussy’’ to shoot.

Anthony Stewart Bagley, 41, has pleaded not guilty to shooting Colin Lutherborrow, 36, during a heated argument that started when they were in a car with a prostitute and her driver husband on Hooker Boulevard at Broadbeach Waters on July 20, 2011.

A jury in the Supreme Court in Brisbane was told that Bagley fired a warning shot into the air from outside the car, moments before Mr Lutherborrow was killed at 2.20am.

Crown prosecutor Vicki Loury said Lutherborrow allegedly told his antagonist ``see, you pussy, you can’t even shoot me’’ when he was shot through the armpit and crumpled onto the bitumen.

The court was told the bullet severed Lutherborrow’s aorta, punctured both lungs and became lodged between his ribs.

She said Lutherborrow was being driven home in a Toyota Corolla to Mermaid Waters after two-and-a-half hours with Claudia Guevara-Koulis, a sex worker who would be ferried to jobs and clients by her husband, George Koulis, around 2am.

Ms Loury said the trio stopped at a pizza shop in Surfers Paradise on the way home when Ms Guevara-Koulis dialled a client she met a week earlier, who had once offered her speed for free.

She said that man was Bagley and he told Ms Guevara-Koulis to meet him in the foyer of his unit block at Chevron Renaissance Resort at Surfers Paradise at 2.10am.

When the trio arrived, Bagley claimed he didn’t want to do the deal in the foyer and instead got in the back seat of the car as they continued on their way to Mr Lutherborrow’s home at Mermaid Waters.

Ms Loury said Mr Lutherborrow became increasingly agitated during the drive and a heated exchange began between the two strangers, with each firing questions at the other, such as ``who are you?’’ and ``where are you from?’’

She said Mr Lutherborrow told Bagley during the exchange that he was the son of a Fink motorcycle gang club member.

The jury was told the argument got to the point where the men screamed at each other about respect, called each other names, threw punches and threatened to have one another killed.

She said the deceased grew very aggressive and Ms Guevara-Koulis tried unsuccessfully to calm them both down.

Ms Loury said the fist fight between the two men ended with a blow being landed on the driver, dislodging his glasses and causing the hazard lights and windscreen wipers to come on.

She said Mr Koulis pulled over in Hooker Boulevard and his wife jumped out and ran to a nearby service station.

The jury was told he asked the warring men to get out of the car but an object was pressed into his lower back and Bagley instructed him: ``just f*cking drive.’’

Mr Koulis pulled up at the next intersection and told Mr Lutherborrow to get out of the car again.

Ms Loury said he walked around the front of the car to confront Bagley, who was out of the back seat and fired a warning shot into the air moments before shooting Mr Lutherborrow.

She said they drove off and Bagley changed his clothes, instructing the prostitute and her driver to dump his gun and ammunition ``at least 100km from the Gold Coast’’ and to burn the clothes he was wearing.

Ms Loury said Mr Koulis took the ammunition and hid it in a tub of massage cream while he concreted the Glock 27 pistol in a bucket and hid it in an esky in the back of the car, eventually leaving it at a friend’s garage.

She said Bagley threatened to do them harm if they failed to carry out the tasks.

The jury was told the prostitute and her husband drove to Newcastle and eventually went to police.